Ask Jeeves scores a Direct Hit

HUGE NEWS: Ask Jeeves is purchasing Direct Hit. Ask Jeeves, as you probably know, uses natural language searching technology at its site, http://www.askjeeves.com . Direct Hit ( http://www.directhit.com/ ) tracks what sites users visit when they use certain search terms, and aggregates the most popular sites as they're related to search terms. At the very least, this would be an incredible way to blend the natural language technology with tracking the popularity of site search results. CNET has a story on it at http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1530855.html . Direct Hit has a Q&A on the deal athttp://www.directhit.com/about/ask.html.

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